ByteDance Tries For Metamorphosis
Plagued by criticisms about censorship and data security, TikTok’s owner is now attempting to shed its Chinese origins.
TSMC: The World’s Fabbest Chip Maker
Despite their ubiquity in our everyday electronics, semiconductor chips are complicated and hugely expensive to make.
PayPal Picks Up the Crumbs in China
Wechat Pay and Alipay process about 90 percent of all mobile payments in China. Still, PayPal’s entrance to the market is significant.
China’s New Energy Car Quest
After long struggling to produce its own world-class cars, China is intent on dominating the electric vehicle industry. So when NIO, one of its highest...
U.S. Invokes National Security To Keep ‘Iron Man’ Outfit At Home
How a small company hoping to step into China’s medical market was blocked by a powerful technology gatekeeper.
Banned, But Not Broken
SenseTime, one of the world's hottest AI companies, was supposedly blacklisted when it was put on the U.S. Entity List last year. But that didn't...
What is the U.S. Entity List?
There are close to 1,300 companies on the U.S. Entity List, mostly from Russia and China. But who are they and how did they get...
Trump Curb on Chinese Student Visas Raises Campus Fears
Move to ban students linked to the Chinese Army, other restrictions could drive away immigrant talent pool, schools warn.
Bigger than Apple? Yes. It’s called BBK
The smartphone brands Vivo, Oppo, OnePlus and Realme rank second in global market share, and they all stem from the 30-year old BBK Electronics and...
Luckin Scandal Exposes Risks In U.S.-China Rift
It was no garden-variety accounting scandal when Luckin Coffee inflated revenues and its stock plunged. U.S. investors have almost no recourse because of a bizarre...
The Rise of China’s Arms Sales
Chinese firms could compete with the West for $275 billion in arms sales over the next decade.
Elsa Kania on How the U.S. Can Mitigate Risk Responsibly
The analyst discusses tech transfer and avoiding profiling in countermeasures.